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Click here to subscribeJames Craig, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards Tumbledown, framed medal group with no.2 Para General Service medal with oak leaf cluster for MID UN Forces Cyprus, South Atlantic medal with Rosettes 1982 Falklands conflict and Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee medal, all unnamed, together with a silk Remembrance framed memento. Proceeds of this lot go to the Help For Heroes charity. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)
Three wristwatches by Lanco, the first with circular black dial, Arabic numerals and centre seconds hand, to a jewelled manual wind movement, dial and movement signed, on an unassociated strap, a smaller similar example, the black circular dial with Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, to a jewelled manual wind movement, dial and movement signed, on an unassociated strap, the third with circular silvered dial, Arabic numerals and centre seconds hand, to a jewelled manual wind movement, dial and movement signed, on an unassociated strap, case widths 3.95cm, 3.25cm and 3.05cm (3)Condition report: Movements only - First watch: movement does not wind or run, winder operates hands. Second watch: movement winds and runs but subsidiary seconds hand is missing, winder operates hands, time keeping has not been tested and working order cannot be guaranteed. Third watch: movement winds and runs, winder operates hands, time keeping has not been tested and working order cannot be guaranteed.
Ashes Cricket memorabilia: England Touring Australia, 1903-4, framed autographs of the England players on a photo of RMS Orontes and a framed letter written by the former captain of the Ashes tour Sir Pelham Francis ‘Plum’ Warner in 1942.Plum Warner played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England. He played 15 Test matches, captaining in 10 of them, with a record of won 4, lost 6. He succeeded in regaining The Ashes in 1903–04, winning the series against Australia 3–2. However he was less successful when he captained England on the tour of South Africa in 1905–06, suffering a resounding 1–4 defeat, the first time England had lost to South Africa in a Test match. He was also to have captained England on the 1911–12 tour of Australia, but fell ill. He was unable to play in any of the Tests, with Johnny Douglas taking over the captaincy.He was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1904 and also in 1921, making him one of two to have received the honour twice (the usual practice is that it is only won once: the other is Jack Hobbs). The second award marked his retirement as a county player after the 1920 season, in which he captained Middlesex to the County Championship title.In the mid-1920s he was Chairman of Selectors, and in 1926 during industrial strife served as a Special Constable.[2] He did not, however, play in another first-class fixture until 1926–27, when he captained a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side to Argentina, in which the four representative matches against the host nation were accorded first-class status. MCC scraped a win in the series by two games to one, with one match drawn. He played one more first-class match, in 1929 for the MCC against the Royal Navy.
Circa 2000-2500 BC A thin-walled, wheel-thrown pottery bowl standing on a small circular foot, the bottom section of the body is tapers upwards to the centre ridge of the body, at this point it slops inwards towards the rim. The exterior is painted with a register of repeated abstract motifs which are framed by two sets of brown horizontal lines and painted with water buffalo and ibex. The earliest traces of civilisation in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along, or close, to the Indus River. Excavations first conducted in 1921-22, in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both now in Pakistan, pointed to a highly complex civilization that first developed some 4,500-5,000 years ago, and subsequent archaeological and historical research has now furnished us with a more detailed picture of the Indus Valley Civilization and its inhabitants. The Indus Valley people were most likely Dravidians, who may have been pushed down into south India when the Aryans, with their more advanced military technology, commenced their migrations to India around 2,000 BC. Though the Indus Valley script remains undeciphered down to the present day, the numerous seals discovered during the excavations, as well as statuary and pottery, not to mention the ruins of numerous Indus Valley cities, have enabled scholars to construct a reasonably plausible account of the Indus Valley Civilization. Size: L:240mm / W:310mm ; 6.9kg. Provenance: From the collection of a London gentleman; formerly acquired in early 2000s in Belgium; previously in 1970s European collection.
Tang Dynasty, Circa 618 -906 AD A beautifully hollow-moulded musician figurine, featuring distinctive characteristics of an imperial court attendant of the Tang Dynasty. The figure is gracefully modelled standing on a low trapezoidal base, his hands joined above his waist in pose of holding, wearing a long and voluminous robe enriched in red and green pigment, secured by a loose belt over wide trousers. He has round face with well-articulated features out in black and red pigments, the hair gathered in a double bun topknot secured with a black kerchief. Pottery figures of attendants such as this example complemented a large array of accessories manufactured for internment in burials belong to high-ranking members of the Tang society. Images In China were believed to ‘become alive’, in other words to function just like their physical counterpart, so they could perpetuate their benign effects to the views. See J.Rawson,'The power of images: the model universe of the First Emperor and its legacy', in Historical Research, no.75, 2002, pp.123-154. See also ibid., 'Changes in the representation of life and the afterlife as illustrated by the content of tombs of the T'ang and Song period', Arts of the Sung and Yuan, New York, 1996, pp.23-43. This piece has been precisely dated by means of a Thermo Luminescence analysis carried out by Oxford Authentication. The samples collected date the piece to the period reflected in its style, whilst also showing no modern trace elements. The TL certificate will accompany this lot. Size: L:555mm / W:190mm ; 4.55kg. Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Predynastic Period, Naqada I-II, circa 4000-3200 B.C. A beautifully formed pottery jar from the pre-dynastic period of Egyptian history. This vessel is smooth to the touch, with a dark red burnished finish and black burnish which continues over the rim and just inside. This decorative vessel has a bulbous shaped body which elegantly expands towards the rim and tapers toward a narrower, flat base. This is a characteristic example of functional tableware. Its bulbous symmetrical body and slightly thickened, tool-marked rim combined with squat proportions make it easy to fit in two hands. These forms of vessels are commonly referred to as ‘black topped vessels’, or B-ware, as determined by famous British Egyptian Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. “Black-topped” vessels derived from the early Naqada I (ca 4000 B.C.), a culture which inhabited ancient Egypt during its predynastic period before the time of iconic Pharaohs as we know them. The Naqada were first described by famed archaeologist William Flinders Petrie; however, relatively little is known about them except that they were situated in the site of El-Amra in central Egypt, west of the Nile River. These vessels were formed using Nile silts, deriving from the deposits of the Nile Valley, rich in silica and iron, which when fired created a wonderful reddish or brown colour in an oxidising atmosphere. The exterior was painted with a thin red coloured iron-oxide liquid that was either polished or burnished with a smooth object such as a stone or wooden implement. This as done following the pottery being dried but after it was fired which created this beautiful rich red burnished smooth exterior. Dorothea Arnold - Janine Bourriau (eds.), An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Pottery (Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1993), p. 33-36; Janine D. Bourriau - Paul Nicholson - Pamela J. Rose, “Pottery” in Paul T. Nicholson - Ian Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 121-147, for the black-topped red ware esp. 125, 128; Stan Hendrickx - Renée Friedman - Fabienne Loyens, “Experimental archaeology concerning black-topped pottery from ancient Egypt and the Sudan”, Cahiers de la Céramique Égyptienne, 6 (Le Caire, 2000), p. 171-187; K. Sowada, "Late Predynastic Egyptian Black-topped Ware. A study in Ceramic Specialisation and Chronology", in C.C. Sorrel - A.J. Ruys (eds.), Proceedings of the International Ceramic Conference: AUSTCERAM 94, 25-27 July 1994, Sydney, Australia (Sydney, Australasian Ceramic Society, 1994), p. 34-39; K. Sowada, "Black-topped Ware in Archaic Contexts", in C. Eyre (ed.), Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3-9 September 1995, Additional Abstracts (Cambridge, 1995), p. 19.Size: L:58mm / W:142mm ; 170gProvenance: From the collection of a London gentleman; formerly acquired in early 2000s; previously in 1970s UK collection.
Circa 900 - 1100 AD. A hand-forged iron axe head with substantial curved blade with cut-out openwork section with a cross and elliptical shaft-hole. The axe is special in its unique design; the blade is openwork, and from the back of the edge-section is seen a little cross. The owner might have had a connection to the first clerical circles in Denmark, eventually as a protector or a life guard. For similar see Silkeborge Museum, Denmark. For similar see National Museum of Denmark. Size: L:142mm / W:103mm ; 451g. Provenance: UK art market, acquired prior to 1980s; property of a London gentleman.
Circa 400 BC. An exquisite Greek iron falcata "kopis" sword, with a heavy single-edged blade widening towards the point. The falcata was a popular type of sword in the Greece and the Iberian Peninsula from the fifth century B.C. For similar see the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art. Accession no. 2001.346 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2001. "One Hundred Thirty-first Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 131: p. 19. Size: L:570mm / W:55mm ; 345gProvenance: From a private collection; previously was acquired from G. M. in London in 2017.
Canaanite, Early Bronze Age, circa 3000 – 2700 BC. A beautifully formed red burnished vessel in the form of a jug with a long neck, large handle and funnel-shaped mouth and flat base. The pottery, often red rose slipped and burnished or painted with geometric motifs, includes jugs, bottles, and jars. Most common are the red-slipped jugs, some of a hard-baked "metallic" quality, with handles attached to the rim and a typical stamped base. This pottery class took its name from Abydos, the first site at which it was found, in Upper Egypt.Size: L:160mm / W:65mm ; 210gProvenance: Property of a UK Ancient Art Gallery; previously in Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feuer, New York, acquired 1970s - 1980s.
Circa 600-400 BC. A finely decorated Iron Acinaces-type sword with pointed, elongated triangular blade, B-shaped guard, rectangular handle and openwork winged pommel. The acinaces is a type of dagger or short sword used mainly in the first millennium BC in the eastern Mediterranean, especially by the Medes, Scythians and Persians, before it was adopted by the Greeks. The Scythians were a warlike nomadic people who dominated the Pontic Steppe (the area North of the Black Sea and stretching as far as Central Asia) in the 7th-3rd centuries BC. This example is from Siberia, where the people were known as Scythians or Scytho-Siberians who left behind an imaginable number of tombs full of precious metalworks. Although horse warfare is what the Scythians are famous for, their weapons and saddles, lacking hard stirrups, seem better suited to dismounting and melee fighting; the acinaces would have been a primary weapon in that kind of situation. Size: L:464mm / W:58mm ; 415g. Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.
Circa 475-221 BC. A Chinese Warring States socketed spearhead; raised central ridge and decorated integral hollow handle. The handle has two vertical columns of incised wave-like decoration which has been elegantly added as decoration. Excellent patination. The military of Warring States region covers primarily to the military apparatuses of the seven Warring States who bought around 475 – 221 BC when the state of Qin conquered the other six regional states. Forming what we know today as China’s first imperial dynasty. The Qin Dynasty. Size: L:230mm / W:303mm ; 102g. Provenance: UK private collection of Asian Art; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Circa 200-300 AD. The body mould-blown with two youthful faces with full cheeks, dimpled chins, and luxurious curly hair, with cylindrical neck and everted rim. For similar see M. Stern, Roman Mold-blown glass, The first through sixth centuries, Toledo, 1995. No. 166 and 167.Size: L:80mm / W:50mm ; 50gProvenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.
Circa 475 - 221 BC. A Chinese Warring States bronze socketed spearhead; raised central ridge and integral hollow handle. Excellent patination. For similar see University of Glasgow, accession number: 23.10.0. The military of Warring States region covers primarily to the military apparatuses of the seven Warring States who bought around 475 – 221 BC when the state of Qin conquered the other six regional states. Forming what we know today as China’s first imperial dynasty. The Qin Dynasty. Size: L:320mm / W:35mm ; 245g. Provenance: UK private collection of Asian Art; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Circa 1200-800 BC A beautifully formed Chinese Warring States Period bronze socketed spear with nicely shaped, solid blade and conical socketed shaft for attaching to a piece of wood. The handle with blocked linear decoration and concentric circles. The military of Warring States region covers primarily to the military apparatuses of the seven Warring States who bought around 475 – 221 BC when the state of Qin conquered the other six regional states. Forming what we know today as China’s first imperial dynasty. The Qin Dynasty. Size: L:340mm / W:35mm ; 255g. Provenance: UK private collection of Asian Art; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
HERMÈS Seidencarré "VIVE LE VENT". Designed by Laurence Thioune, Motiv erstmals 1992 erschienen. 90x90cm. 100% Seide. Schiffsszenario mit großem Schiffrad in kräftigen Farben mit roter Umrandung und handrolliertem Saum. Guter Erhalt. | HERMÈS silk scarf "VIVE LE VENT". Designed by Laurence Thioune, motif first published in 1992. 90x90cm. 100% silk. Ship scenario with large ship's wheel in strong colours with red border and handrolled hem. Good condition.
HERMÈS Seidencarré "A PROPOS DE BOTTES". By Xavier De Poret, Motiv erstmals 1962 erschienen. 100% Seide in Beige mit dekorativen Stiefelmotiven, handrollierter Saum. 40x40cm. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Box anbei.| HERMÈS silk scarf "A PROPOS DE BOTTES". By Xavier De Poret, motif first appeared in 1962. 100% silk in beige with decorative boot motifs, hand rolled hem. 40x40cm. Light signs of wear. With box.
HERMÈS Seidencarré "COLLECTIONS IMPERIALES", by Catherine Baschet, Entwurf erstmals erschienen 2015/2016. SAMMERLSTÜCK. RARITÄT. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstgewerbemuseum, von Cloisonné aus der chinesischen Ming- und Qing-Zeit inspiriert. Cloisonné-Technik besteht darin, mit Hilfe von dünnen Metallstreifen, die auf das Feld gelegt werden, Muster zu erzeugen und so Netze zu bilden, die dann mit Emaille gefüllt werden. 100% Seide. Handrollierte Säume. Flecken vorhanden, sonst sehr guter Zustand. | HERMÈS silk scarf "COLLECTIONS IMPERIALES", by Catherine Baschet, draft first published 2015/2016. COLLECTION. RARITY. In collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts, inspired by cloisonné from the Chinese Ming and Qing periods. Cloisonné technique consists of creating patterns using thin metal strips placed on the field to form nets, which are then filled with enamel. 100% silk. Handrolled hems. Stains present, otherwise very good condition.
A good collection of hardback books relating to agriculture to include Live Stock of the Farm Volumes 1-6 by The Gresham Publishing Company, London. (The Sixth Volume appears to be slightly different from the rest) together with Live Stock In Health and Disease 'This Edition, being specially prepared for Subscription, is not obtainable through the general Booksellers. Cassell & Company Limited' together with 3 others to include The Shire Horse Society Sixty-Ninth Volume, Horses Dogs Birds Cattle First Aid and Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Vol 62 1901 (4). Appear to be in good condition and believed to be complete. (10 in total)
University / Education interest: A framed 19th century printed University certificate 'It is hereby certified that William Sillito obtained a First Class in the Elementary Stage of Inorganic Chemistry at the Examination held on the 22nd May, 1890' from 'The Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education, Department of Science and Art, London S W.
A good collection of illustrated books ranging from the early - mid 20th century (16 books), generally in good condition and beliebed to be complete to include the following titles:The Story of Nelson and Wellington, Illustrated, Published by W & R Chambers Limited - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, With many illustrations in colour and black and white by Helen Stratton, Published by Blackie & Son Limited - Animal Stories from Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, Published by MacMillan and Co Limited - Boys' and Girls' Book for 1937, A Daily Express Publication ? containing a Rupert the Bear story - Girls' Crystal Annual 1948, Issued from The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London - Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore, With coloured illustrations specially prepared for this work: Landscapes by Charles E Brittan; Figure subjects by Charles E Brock, Published by Boots the Chemists - Mother Goose's Nursery Tales with illustrations by Charles Folkard, Edited by L Edna Walter, Published by A & C Black Ltd - The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders with twelve colour plates and 300 illustrations, Edited by Harry Golding, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - The Wonder Book of Ships with eight colour plates and nearly 100 illustrations, Nineteenth edition, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - The Wonder Book of Animals, Over 200 photographs and specially-prepared drawings, 8 full colour plates, Twenty first edition, Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - Children's Stories from Russian Fairy Tales and Legends, Translated and adapted by Seraphima Pulman, Illustrated by Arthur A Dixon and edited by Capt Vredenburg - The Adventures of Robin Hood with 16 plates in colour, 100 illustrations and text based on the First National Pictures Technicolor Production "The Adventures of Robin Hood", Published by Ward, Lock & Co Limited - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, Published by J Coker & Co Ltd - The Golden Age by Kenneth Graham with Nineteen Illustrations by R J Enraght-Moony, Published by John Lane (London and New York) and Bell & Cockburn (Toronto), MCMXV - Herbert Strang's Annual, 13th Year, Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press London, MCMXXI - A Book of Boys' Stories, Published by Blackie & Son Limited, Book Production War Economy Standard.
A pair of books to include a 'Mirth A Miscellany Of Wit & Humour' edited by Henry J Byron, Published by Tinsley Brothers of 8 Catherine Street, 1878 together with 'Games of Patience for One or More Players' by Miss Whitmore Jones, Illustrated, Published by L Upcott Gill, 170 Strand, WC, believed to possibly be a first edition (2).
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